Terms of Service

Agreement

These Terms govern your use of Dorsal websites, APIs, MCP servers, the optional website research agent, audit features, and related services operated by Dorsal Corporation (collectively, the "Service"). By accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you use the Service for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.

What Dorsal Provides

Dorsal is a source-backed knowledge graph and retrieval service for AI coding. It connects technical documentation, public software activity, research, practitioner reports, products, methods, problems, use cases, and related evidence. Dorsal can be used through its API and MCP server, through supported coding agents, through the optional website research agent, and through audit workflows.

Evidence Is Not a Guarantee

Dorsal is designed to connect claims to inspectable sources, but its records may be incomplete, delayed, duplicated, misclassified, superseded, or incorrect. Public-source content may itself be inaccurate. Rankings, summaries, inferred relationships, recommendations, and generated responses are not guarantees.

Review the underlying sources, test important conclusions, and use qualified professional advice where appropriate. Dorsal is not legal, medical, financial, security, or other professional advice.

Coding Agents and Automated Changes

Code, plans, commands, configurations, and remediation produced by an AI agent may be wrong, insecure, destructive, or unsuitable for your environment. You are responsible for reviewing changes, protecting credentials, maintaining backups, using appropriate permissions, testing behavior, and deciding what to deploy. Do not give an agent more access than the task requires.

Dorsal Audits

Dorsal audits are designed to let your coding agent inspect local work history and compare it with current field evidence. Raw history is intended to remain local; Dorsal receives the research requests that your agent sends through MCP. Audit findings are recommendations, not definitive assessments. Dorsal does not make code changes unless you separately instruct and authorize your coding agent to do so.

Eligibility, Access, and Credentials

• You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service.
• Provide accurate information when access or authentication is required.
• Keep API keys, bearer tokens, OAuth grants, and account credentials confidential.
• You are responsible for activity performed with your credentials until you notify us of unauthorized use.
• Demo, preview, and beta access may have lower limits and may be changed or withdrawn.

Acceptable Use

You may not use the Service to:

• Violate law, contractual duties, or another person's rights
• Access, expose, or process systems, code, accounts, or data without authorization
• Develop or deploy malware, credential theft, destructive payloads, or abusive surveillance
• Submit secrets, regulated data, or personal information you are not authorized to process
• Circumvent authentication, rate limits, security controls, or usage restrictions
• Interfere with, overload, probe, or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure
• Resell, systematically extract, or reproduce substantial parts of the Service except under a written agreement with Dorsal
• Use Dorsal output as the sole basis for decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on people

Your Inputs

You retain your rights in questions, prompts, feedback, code, and other materials you submit. You grant Dorsal a limited, non-exclusive license to process those inputs only as needed to provide, secure, support, and improve the Service, comply with law, and enforce these Terms. You represent that you have the rights and authority needed to submit them.

Public Sources and Third-Party Services

Dorsal links to and summarizes third-party documentation, repositories, research, posts, products, and services. Those materials remain subject to their owners' rights, licenses, and terms. A link, ranking, or mention does not imply endorsement or partnership.

Third-party coding agents, model providers, hosting services, and source websites are governed by their own terms. Dorsal is not responsible for third-party services, content, availability, or data practices.

Dorsal Intellectual Property

Dorsal and its software, graph structure, retrieval systems, interfaces, branding, documentation, and original content are owned by Dorsal Corporation or its licensors and are protected by applicable law. Except as expressly permitted, you may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, distribute, or create competing datasets or services from substantial portions of Dorsal.

Feedback

If you provide suggestions or feedback, you grant Dorsal a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or compensation. This does not transfer ownership of your code or other confidential materials.

Fees

Some features may be free, metered, or offered under a paid plan. Pricing, usage limits, billing terms, and renewal terms presented when you purchase or activate a plan are incorporated into these Terms. Except where required by law or expressly stated otherwise, fees are non-refundable.

Service Changes

Dorsal changes rapidly. We may add, modify, limit, suspend, or discontinue features, data sources, models, tools, access methods, or usage limits. We will provide notice of material changes when reasonably practicable or legally required.

Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms, create security or legal risk, fail to pay applicable fees, or materially disrupt the Service. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Dorsal Corporation and its affiliates, officers, employees, and suppliers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities arising from the Service. Our aggregate liability arising from the Service will not exceed the greater of $100 or the amount you paid Dorsal during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limits, so these provisions may not apply to you in full.

Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend and indemnifyDorsal Corporation and its affiliates, officers, employees, and suppliers from claims, damages, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your inputs, your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person's rights.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by California law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute not subject to a different written agreement will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California, and each party consents to their jurisdiction.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the revised Terms and update the effective date. If a change is material, we will provide additional notice when reasonably practicable or required by law. Continued use after the revised Terms become effective means you accept them.

General

These Terms and any applicable order or written agreement are the entire agreement concerning the Service. If one provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain effective. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; Dorsal may assign them in connection with a corporate transaction or by operation of law.

Contact

• Dorsal Corporation
• Email: hello@godorsal.com
• Web: godorsal.com